hey, nert team, nert volunteers. is anybody here? if you say let's call out, everyone is going to be calling out, hey, nert team. nobody can listen. hey, let's call out and give it a couple seconds, see if we can hear somebody. not only call out, make sure that you can listen, too. we want you to start your search from the top so if you go into the building, start from the top and then work your way back. we want you to do a left or right handed search pattern, meaning when you enter a room or a building, we want you to find a wall and stay on that wall. we want to have somebody stay on that wall because that wall will show you the way out. mark each individual unit so the x that i was talking about, if you go into a multi-unit apartment building, you with want to do it on each unit. so i go into this apartment, you're going to do a slash, go into the apartment, do your search, when you come out and complete the x. again at the top is the time that you entered. they want you to write the time that you leave also. so you would cross o

what can you do as nerts, as a nert team? rope it off, cordon it off. what else? good, runner to the fire department. do you have the tools and skills to extinguish a major fire? no, you don't. notify the erd, evacuate -- assist the fire department if we get there, but don't become a victim. smell of gas. what can you do as nerts? turn off the gas. and what are the 3 situations when you want to shut the gas off? smell the gas, something -- oh, yeah, wheels are spinning and major building collapse. muni -- overhead muni wire, flopping around. what can you did as nerts? always assume all electricity is live and hot. so what can you do as nerts? cordon off the area, tell people to stay back. small fires reported in the rear of a building, what can you do as nerts? if it's still burning that small fire is now a very large fire. so all you can do is really notify the erd, evacuate the area, assist the fire department. five buildings have suffered heavy damage -- heavy damage, kind of a clue there. three of the buildings have collapsed. what can you do as nerts? not qui

so signs of possible structural damage, as a nert team, you have to be able to identify buildings. you have to be able, during a disaster, especially an earthquake, walk down the street and be able to look at buildings and understand this building is okay, this building is bad. as you walk down the street. especially if you are going to go into that building. things to look for, horizontal and vertical lines. in this room, most construction works at 90 degree angles. if you look around the room, this beam is a little bit curved. but where the beam meets the wall, it hits at a 90 degree angle. basically makes a vertical and horizontal line. you want to look for these things when you look at a building. and it's not always obvious . if you look at this building, this one was an example of the racking we talked about. see how these studs are starting to fold on each other? if this whole thing fell over, the studs would be connected to each other. this is an example of the racking. obvious example of racking here; right? if you walk into this building, you are going to say this is heav

here are our objectives on the nert team, figure out if it's big, if it's small, how do we keep track of what's going on? do we just remember it? are we going to rely on our computers, our pc's? no, we have to write it down the old-fashioned way. address, is there a fire, yes or no, damage, are there people injured, dead, can you get there. where, what, any sort of damage, are there people involved, can you get to it? here is a nert status sheet. basically if you send somebody out, you want to send the members' names, what time they went out, when they came back, what the assignment was, any comments, and if you have an incident number that would be nice. who is the safety person? we don't want to send people out, just hey, go do this. we want to keep track of it. if they don't come back within a couple hours we have to send somebody to find them or at least checkup on them. if we don't know where they went and who they are, you have chaos. they might be hurt and they're going to stay hurt. we're going to roll on to disaster psychology. what does that mean? when people go through a di

whatever you do know your limit and what you are capabilit capa once you are involved with the nert teamsnd you get to revie the stuff and what you can do and physically you know what yo can do and lift people and mentally is another thing and w will talk about disaster psychology next week and some people say they can't look at blood or some say they can't look at a child screaming and know your limits and don't become a victim yourself. . >> we're going to go over search and rescue in this class, go over some buildings and how you assess buildings. you already had classes on utility controls, correct? how about medical? did medical? okay, as i said, my name s

whatever you do know your limit and what you are capabilit capa once you are involved with the nert teams and you get to revie the stuff and what you can do and physically you know what yo can do and lift people and mentally is another thing and w will talk about disaster psychology next week and some people say they can't look at blood or some say they can't look at a child screaming and know your limits and don't become a victim yourself. . >> we're going to go over search and rescue in this class, go over some buildings and how you assess buildings. you already had classes on utility controls, correct? how about medical? did medical? okay, as i said, my name is alec, i'm on truck 11. let's go into some light search and rescue. before you start, what do you do? stop, look, listen and think. any time you pull up to an incident or you see something, you take a breath, assess the situation, use all your senses and think about what you are going to do. those are all components of what we call the size-up. there are many components to size up. what's one of the components to size up? gatheri

as a past coordinator nora has led her team in all aspects of nert training.a does many other things for the nert program. she has organized youth groups, namely the red cross youth group, so they can act as victims during our triage drills. nora also participates in mini drills, outreach tabling programs, and she does continuing training. when nora is not doing this, she's working in the nert office organizing volunteers. nora is our resident ar extraordinaer. and what do i mean by that? nora has the ability through use of makeup to create life-threatening wounds on the limbs of victims. [laughter] >> so that our graduating nert class 6 triage people can see what it might really look like during a real event. nora's goals are pretty self-evident. she would like everyone to take the nert program. we are so happy, nora, for you -- where are you? you are very deserving of this award. congratulations. (applause) >> thank you so much. i really consider myself a student, and i have so many people that are part of the nert family that have taught me so much. and i i

>> the events in boston plaped a role in the neighborhood response team or nert drill in san franciscooday. the drills are held by the fire department several times a year and anyone can sign up for free. it covers everything from first aid and search and rescue to any type of disaster. today's drill was an earthquake drill, the bomtings in boston were on everybody's mind. 50 signed up last minute after the marathon. >> it brought more seriousness to the volunteers approach, maybe a casual approach, go to the drill. now there's a pressing urgency about keeping our skills fresh. >> the program is training 24,000 people since the loma prieta earthquake. >>> setting out on a special mission, the new journey these world war ii vets are embarking on. >> reporter: live in palo alto, a meeting on gun control has wrapped up. i'll tell you what happened during that event in a live report. >>> and the warriors played in the first playoff game in six years. we'll show you how it went coming up in sports. >>> good afternoon, this evening temperatures today about 10 to 15 degrees above average. gil

to this training drill in san francisco today put on by the fire department's nert, or neighborhood emergency response team. >> the preparation that you do is really going to pay off no matter what the emergency is. >> reporter: in the bay area, we're vulnerable to earthquake, flooding, fire and terrorist attacks. >> absolutely first responders will be there but they will be overwhelmed by an event such as the one in boston. >> reporter: what we saw in boston was volunteers stepping in to help stopping bleeding and saving lives. >> it's kind of brought more seriousness to the volunteers approach. you know? maybe there's sort of a casual approach, yeah, i'll go to the drill. now there's a pressing urgency about keeping our skills fresh. >> reporter: 300 people had initially signed up for the drill and 50 more signed up after monday's bombing. but it's not just average citizens who had their eyes opened. >> i guess as first responders, are we ready? what's our plan? >> reporter: fema says the bay area is one of the most prepared areas of the world when it comes to emergency training. but it's still not enoug

to this training drill in san francisco today put on by the fire department's nert, or neighborhood emergency response team. >> the preparation that you do is really going to pay off no matter what the emergency is. >> reporter: in the bay area, we're vulnerable to earthquake, flooding, fire and terrorist attacks. >> absolutely first responders will be there but they will be overwhelmed by an event such as the one in boston. >> reporter: what we saw in boston was volunteers stepping in to help stopping bleeding and saving lives. >> it's kind of brought more seriousness to the volunteers approach. you know? maybe there's sort of a casual approach, yeah, i'll go to the drill. now there's a pressing urgency about keeping our skills fresh. >> reporter: 300 people had initially signed up for the drill and 50 more signed up after monday's bombing. but it's not just average citizens who had their eyes opened. >> i guess as first responders, are we ready? what's our plan? >> reporter: fema says the bay area is one of the most prepared areas of the world when it comes to emergency training. but it's still not enoug

>> reporter: on-hand roughly 300 volunteers are nert, the city's neighborhood emergency response teamcca lieberspach is learning how to care for her neighbors if there is a disaster. >> the more confident and comfortable we'll feel we'll be able to help people more quickliment with we're the eyes and ears of the police department and the for the and the big one hits they can't do it all. >> reporter: today they are learning how to put out small fires. searching through rubble to find people who are trapped. >> what are you supposed to to for them? >> reporter: and getting triage training from san francisco firefighters. volunteers are tieing these color-clodded ribbons to the victims that they come across to let first-responders know who has the worse injuries and it seems that much more critical after a week of bombings in boston and a deadly blast in texas. >> everybody immediately thinks earthquake, but it could be anything. there was an earthquake in china and obviously what happened in boston and texas. it is natural or manmade disasters. >> reporter: san francisco has about 15,0

nert park. players from henry steam, the blue jays and the opposing team were lined up at the field to get henry high five. petaluma fire department paramedics and captain dan farren and his wife sue farren performed cpr on henry after he collapsed until a bit later arrived. >> the web leg is on top stores out of boston. the main suspect has made a court appearance in court. will tell you what happened. a live look of the james lick freeway.erica will be alonk at your commute and an update on your tuesday forecast. >> we are back. talking about the weather. this was the scene at ocean beach. here is video from yesterday afternoon as people gathered. ocean beach bill yesterday >> we want to get the word on whether from erica. how hot it did. >> 71 degrees. after that the sea breeze kicks in. >> let us take a look at today's afternoon highs. >> planted mid-80s. napa reaching 85. the site for antioch. low '80s for pledging to livermore. it will be a pretty nice day in downtown san francisco 72. upper 60s for daly city. >> yesterday's we certainly broke records. mountain view, oakland airport all ar

team training folks that are here today. my hat is off to you because we couldn't do it without your dead gaytion -- dedication and volunteerism. so, thank you to our nert members here today. (applause) >> and i'm so proud to continue to be partnering with our military personnel when it comes to humantarian assistance and disaster relief. i was literally in awe on wednesday on ocean beach with the landing of the lcac and also to take a look at the capabilities and the resources that we would have available to us in the event of a large-scale emergency. my hat is off to all of you with just how well you've planned, your multitude capabilities, and as secretary schultz said i'll take a note from his confidence of display. to see how you set up in an hour a field hospital to take care of patients, not run of the mill patients, but critically wounded patients. we were so impressed. i think a couple other words the secretary used were impressive and reassuring. that's what it's about, forming partnerships. so, i'm very proud to be not only to be honoring and celebrating our military, but to be partnering once again in cross training. happy to report that a l